“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“We can be reminded of the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s words, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted.”
― Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide
― Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide
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